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Tryphon also gives a list of the different names of
songs, as follows. He says—"There is the Himæus, which is
also called the Millstone song, which men used to sing while
grinding corn, perhaps from the word ἱμαλίς.. But ἱμαλίς
is a Dorian word, signifying a return, and also the quantity
of corn which the millers gave into the bargain. Then there
is the Elinus, which is the song of the men who worked at the
loom; as Epicharmus shows us in his Atalantas. There is
also the Ioulos, sung by the women who spin. And Semus
the Delian, in his treatise on Pæans, says—'"They used to call
the handfuls of barley taken separately, ἄμάλαι; but when
they were collected so that a great many were made into one
sheaf, then they were called οὔλοι and ἴουλοι.. And Ceres
herself was called sometimes Chloe, and sometimes Ioulo;
and, as being the inventions of this goddess, both the fruits
of the ground and also the songs addressed to the goddess
were called οὖλοι and ἴουλοι: and so, too, we have the words
δημήτρουλοι and καλλίουλοι, and the line—

But others say that the Ioulis is the song of the workers in
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wool. There are also the songs of nurses, which are called
καταβαυκαλήσεις. There was also a song used at the feast of
Swings,1 in honour of Erigone, which is called Aletis. At all
events, Aristotle says, in his treatise on the Constitution of the
Colophonians—“Theodorus also himself died afterwards by a
violent death. And he is said to have been a very luxurious
man, as is evident from his poetry; for even now the women
sing his songs on the festival of the Swing.”

There was also a reaper's song called Lityerses; and another
song sung by hired servants when going to the fields, as
Teleclides tells us in his Amphictyons. There were songs, too,
of bathing men, as we learn from Crates in his Deeds of Daring;
and a song of women baking, as Aristophanes intimates
in his Thesmophoriazusæ, and Nicochares in his Hercules
Choregus. And another song in use among those who drove
herds, and this was called the Bucoliasmus. And the man
who first invented this species of song was Diomus, a Sicilian
cowherd; and it is mentioned by Epicharmus in his Halcyon,
and in his Ulysses Shipwrecked. The song used at deaths
and in mourning is called Olophyrmus; and the songs called
Iouli are used in honour of Ceres and Proserpine. The song
sung in honour of Apollo is called Philhelias, as we learn
from Telesilla; and those addressed to Diana are called Upingi.

There were also laws composed by Charondas, which were
sung at Athens at drinking-parties; as Hermippus tells us
in the sixth book of his treatise on Lawgivers. And Aristophanes, in his catalogue of Attic Expressions, say—“The
Himæus is the song of people grinding; the Hymenæus is
the song used at marriage-feasts; and that employed in lamentation is called Ialemus. But the Linus and the Aelinus
are not confined to occasions of mourning, but are in use also
in good fortune, as we may gather from Euripides.”

1 There is no account of what this feast of Swings was. The Greek is
ἔωραι. Some have fancied it may have had some connexion with the
images of Bacchus (oscilla) hung up in the trees. See Virg. G. ii. 389.

Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. Or Banquet Of The Learned Of Athenaeus. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.

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